Nostalgia

This article was originally published by Liam Togher on Tale of Two Halves in July 2018. Growing up in the...

The late seventies and early eighties are most memorable for fantastic music, questionable outfits and Margaret Thatcher becoming Prime Minister....

The news this week yet another ex-footballer has been diagnosed with dementia has come as quite a shock. For me,...

Bob Wilson is a true footballing legend as a goalkeeper, a coach, and a tv sports presenter. His playing career...

Welcome to the next instalment of our ‘Falls from Grace’ series where we take a look back at the rapid...

The late seventies and early eighties are most memorable for fantastic music, questionable outfits and Margaret Thatcher becoming Prime Minister....

If you ask any little girl or boy who their favourite player is, it will usually be a striker. These...

The late seventies and early eighties are most memorable for fantastic music, questionable outfits and Margaret Thatcher becoming Prime Minister....

Previously, we discussed how a manager that had been at the top of the European game was lured by his...

With the Premier League being the most competitive league to play in for players across the world, it is hardly...

The European cup Winners’ Cup, which ran from 1960 to 1999, has been associated with some pretty glamorous names over...

The world of football is now missing one of its greatest ever strikers after the death of Gerd Müller. The...

"I became a footballer by an accident" French football has benefited a lot from the black footballers. However, many of...

A running theme in our new series is the number of clubs who hit upon hard times shortly after delivering...

This article was originally published on Tale of Two Halves in September 2018 Standing as one of the most iconic...

In the modern age, when football from across the globe can be streamed straight into our eyeballs with ever greater...

With the new season underway in the Football League, and with the Premier League starting on Friday, we asked some...

About to begin life in the Premier League, boasting a squad bristling with talent and housed in a brand-new stadium,...

PAUL BREEN looks back at the short and turbulent life of English football’s first openly gay player and the way...

Football clubs around the world have different histories and roots. Some of them were founded by students, some by the...

In this life You're on your own And if the elevator tries to bring you down Go crazy (“Let’s Go...

Former Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez’s shock appointment at Everton, this summer, has caused ripples in the footballing world. He is...

Ordinarily, football goes in cycles and no one club dominates indefinitely; even supposed dynasties such as Liverpool in the 1970s...

As the latest European Championships finished in the most dramatic way possible with Italy beating England at Wembley on penalties...

This is the story of an international football match causing an international incident, which had ramifications for many years after....

“Some of these trips we made last a week, it was a holiday. It was different. Different places, different food,...

Certain clubs seem to teem with tradition and are thus regarded by some to have always been amongst the biggest...

Last time out we opened our series on ‘Falls from Grace” with a look at possibly the Granddaddy of them...

El Maracanazo 1989 refers to an incident when Chilean goalkeeper Roberto Rojas attempted to cheat Brazil out of a place...

“The door opened from the cockpit and a bottle of vodka rolled down the aisle.” If crossing the Iron Curtain...

One can only wonder at the pride a certain Mr and Mrs Charlton must have felt on 30th July 1966...

‘Did you know there used to be a 6 Nations for football?’ ‘Seriously? With France and Italy?’ ‘No, just the...

Some things in football, as in life, are deemed worse than others. For example, Alan Shearer, amongst others, contends there...

The modern game sees the sands shifting more regularly than ever before and such are its inconsistencies and vagaries that...

As football fans, we often get carried away by our passion for the beautiful game, making claims that it is the...

It had been an incredible couple of seasons for Swindon. League Cup winners and promoted to the Second Division in...

This article was originally published on Tale of Two Halves by Sam Bettany (@bettany_sam) As confirmed recently, a bid by...

When Lionel Messi retires, will he become a plumber? When Cristiano Ronaldo hangs up his boots, will he become a...

This is a six-part series covering halcyon days for Swindon Town. We began in the 1968-69 season. Swindon Town were...

The 1968-69 season was the best Swindon Town supporters had ever known. Their first ever trip to Wembley saw them...

Roy Hodgson announced at the end of the 2020-21 season that he will be parting ways with Crystal Palace after...

The summer of 1992. I have to admit, my memory of this time is far hazier than of the summer...

Towards the end of the 1980s, Ireland qualified for the European Championship and World Cup finals for the first time...

The moment You own it, you better never let it go You only get one shot, do not miss your...

The fortunes of Yugoslavia as a nation politically and in footballing terms could hardly have been in wider contrast in...

Twenty-three years. Twenty-three years looking from the outside in, faces pressed against the TV watching the rest of the Home...

The World Cup in Mexico ’86 is generally regarded as Maradona’s tournament. It’s arguable whether Argentina would’ve even made the...

This series is a look back at Swindon Town’s glory days. We started during the 1968-69 season. Swindon are in...

This is part two of the glory days of Swindon Town. Three extraordinary seasons where they hit heights never seen...

This was originally written by Peter Rancati for Tale of Two Halves Football has a strange relationship with unusual hairstyles....